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documents uncovered at his office and the brutal storms in california. flooding, massive rainfall and flooding, tens of thousands under evacuation orders right now. and according to governor gavin newsom 17 confirmed dead right at this hour. cnn's nick watt joins us with the latest along the los angeles river which in normal times is a river in name only. what's the latest, nick? >> reporter: you're right, anderson. this is normally just a trickle. in fact, there's usually a homeless encampment in what is the l.a. river. those people about to flee to higher ground. you know, californ...

>> reporter: anderson, as you know for the past several days they've been searching inside the house, outside the house. late this afternoon the district attorney released a statement basically saying that the search at the house has been completed and now they're in the process of processing everything they found there at the house. but once again much of the investigation now focused on those items that were found in the trash, those three items plus whatever else they may have found there and what they can do in terms of trying to make a match, some sort of a dna match and see where it lead...